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• The altar boys got in trouble after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion.From the entry sacramental
• Whoever has not abandoned desire for fruits of action and still have self-centered objectives can never become a Yogi or a practitioner of spiritual communion through work.From the entry yogi
• Amidst the conflicts in their place, these young people proved that communion is possible in their tribes.2017 June 21, “Youth Summer Engagement 2017”, in Bukal ng Tipan. From the entry gimong
• But is this communion of cybersouls a sound foundation for religion?2004, Peter Antes, Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, page 398. From the entry cybersoul
• Individual church members would still have the option to avoid communion.2000, Robert Saudek, Charles Spearman, Karl Edward Zener, Journal of Personality, volume 68, numbers 1-3, page 619. From the entry antiantidote
• A lay minister, or chaliccist, who assists eith the distribution of communion.1999, Arthur J. Magida, Stuart M. Matlins, editors, How to be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious…. From the entry chalicist
• Close communion with God makes us immune to night fright and gives us courage in darkness.1997, Roger Campbell, Spurgeon's Daily Treasures in the Psalms. From the entry nightfright
• In baptism we make covenant; in communion we renew covenant week by week. . . .1979, Ronald E. Osborn, The Faith We Affirm, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry break bread
• Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced.1971, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volumes 141-142, page 41. From the entry bepuddle
• Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, pp. 12–13 (online edition). From the entry dendrite
• H.M. was in a litter (sukhpāl), and holding communion with his God.1939, Henry Beveridge translating Abu al-Fazl ibn-Mubarak as The Akbarnāma of Abu'l Fazl, Vol. III, Pt. 1, p. 341. From the entry sukhpal
• Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171. From the entry gedup
• It is with the day of her first communion that this narrative of mine begins.1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William…. From the entry First Communion
• They had taken a lot of cookie communion since their mother’s death, but the jar was still packed to the rim.2016, Stephen King, Cookie Jar. From the entry chocolate chipper
• The eulogia, meanwhile, came to be regarded as, at least in a partial sense, a surrogate for communion.2015, Gervase Rosser, The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550. From the entry eulogia
• Instead of embracing on a ship's prow, Sully and Neyfiri ride their banshee steeds in ecstatic communion across the Pandoran sky.2009 December 14, Richard Corliss, “Corliss Appraises Avatar: A World of Wonder”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Pandoran
• Tom is in rapt communion with his police car, lying on his stomach, pushing it round and round, making nee-naw noises.2007, Penelope Lively, Consequences. From the entry nee-naw
• The following day, another in a monthful of perfect ones on the Keys, Emily and I had our own heart-to-heart communion.2007, Frank S. Johnson, Sailing the Blue-Green Line. From the entry monthful
• Our zombie dance began with a first outing, our first lace dress for church, our first communion, our first dance.2003, Edwidge Danticat, The Butterfly's Way. From the entry zombie dance
• The communion is celebrated every Sunday, the deacons, who are young boys of perhaps thirteen or fourteen, passing the sacrament.1912: American Missionary Association, Congregational Home Missionary Society, and Making of America Project, The American Missionary…. From the entry LDS churches
• The woman approached closer to her with outstretched hand as if inviting her into communion with evil powers.1911, William C[ollin] Levere, Vivian of Mackinac, Chicago, Ill.: Forbes & Company, pages 223–224. From the entry necromanceress
• The resolution was adopted with little difficulty, and all communion with secretists and all reception of secret society members ceased .1905, Matthias Loy, Story of My Life, page 184. From the entry secretist
• As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop.2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian. From the entry sing-song
• In normal preparation for communion, Christians committed themselves to reconciliation with, and forgiveness of, anyone to whom they lived in a state of wrath or inimicability.2011, Michael Ostling, “Stealing the Sacred”, in Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (The Past &…. From the entry inimicability
• Key to his thought was a concept which has become central to modern Russian Orthodox thinking, Sobornost’, the proposition that freedom is inseparable from unity, communion or community.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 851. From the entry sobornost
• Then let’s all hold communion instead of confrontation, you Marys, Margarets, Megs, you mothers, sisters, daughters; it’s family reunion that finds by acclamation we’re sick of treading eggs.1991, Vassar Miller, If I Had Wheels Or Love: Collected Poems of Vassar Miller, Southern Methodist University Press, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry megs
• The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 148. From the entry communicate
• External communion, on the other hand, consists in the same Creeds, Sacraments, Liturgical forms, rites, and ceremonies, communicatory letters between Churches, and the same discipline and episcopal government.1958, F[rederick] R[othwell] Bolton, “Internal Communion”, in The Caroline Tradition of the Church of Ireland […], London: […] [F]or the…. From the entry communicatory

Meaning of communion

1. noun A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
2. noun Holy Communion; the Eucharist.
3. noun A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Catholic Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.

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Questions about communion in a sentence

How do you use communion in a sentence?

Communion is used as a noun. For example: “The altar boys got in trouble after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion.”

What is a short sentence with communion?

“I haven't confessed or prayed or taken communion in years.”

What does communion mean?

Communion means a joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.